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Tubescout MCP server

by not0lucky·io.github.not0lucky/tubescout·v0.1.1
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YouTube as a research engine: keyless search, video intel, resilient transcripts, demand signals.

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Tubescout tools (6)

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  • get_channel_videos

    Channel metadata (name, subscribers, description) plus its recent uploads with views — enough to read a channel's strategy, cadence, and what performs.

  • get_search_suggestions

    YouTube's autocomplete for a seed term — a direct read on real search demand. Use for keyword research: seed a niche term, get what people actually type. Chain suggestions of suggestions to map a topic space.

  • get_transcript

    Fetch a video's transcript as clean plain text. Resilient: tries InnerTube, then the timedtext caption track, then local yt-dlp if installed. Long transcripts are chunked — check totalChars and call again with offsetChars to continue.

  • get_transcripts

    Batch transcript fetch (max 10 videos, 3 at a time). Per-video failures don't kill the batch — failed entries carry an error field. Each transcript is truncated to fit; use get_transcript with offsetChars for full text of long ones.

  • get_video

    Full metadata + engagement for one video: title, channel, publish date, views, likes, likesPer1kViews (resonance signal, typical range 10-50), category, keywords, description, hasCaptions.

  • search_videos

    Search YouTube for videos (no API key). Returns id, title, channel, published, views, duration, snippet per hit. Use filters to narrow: uploadDate for recency, sortBy view_count to find what performs.

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-31 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings
  • Code scan10 source files scanned25/25
  • –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
  • –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
  • Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
  • Maintenancelast push 65 days ago12/15
  • Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Overall 88/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

How Tubescout compares

Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score
88/100
higher than 80% of 3,470 Web search servers
Tools
6
the typical Web search server has 5
Tools that change things
0%
typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
Downloads a week
42
more than 28% of 827 Web search servers with a package

What its tools let an agent do: 6 read

Install Tubescout in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

Runs npx -y tubescout on your machine. Read the scan report first; the gateway never runs local packages.

claude mcp add tubescout -- npx -y tubescout
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What the publisher says

From the Tubescout repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

TubeScout 🔭

Turn YouTube into a research engine for your AI agent. An MCP server (no API key) plus a skill pack that make Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode search YouTube like a database, read transcripts at scale, and mine videos for evidence — claims, numbers, demand signals — instead of vibes.

Idea-engine tools scan Reddit and forums. YouTube is where founders show receipts — revenue dashboards, playbooks, real numbers on camera — and nothing mines it. TubeScout does.

Quickstart (60 seconds)

Claude Code

claude mcp add --scope user tubescout -- npx -y tubescout

Codex

codex mcp add tubescout -- npx -y tubescout

OpenCode — add to ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json under "mcp":

"tubescout": { "type": "local", "command": ["npx", "-y", "tubescout"], "enabled": true }

That's it — no API key, no config. Then ask your agent things like:

"Find the 5 most-viewed videos about n8n from the last month and summarize what people are struggling with."

Easiest all-in-one (Claude Code): install as a plugin — MCP server + all 6 skills in two commands:

/plugin marketplace add not0lucky/tubescout
/plugin install tubescout@tubescout

Or install the skill pack manually (works for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode):

git clone https://github.com/not0lucky/tubescout && cd tubescout
./scripts/install-skills.sh   # installs into ~/.claude/skills, ~/.codex/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills

Tools

Skills (the research methods)

All skills are context-aware: they read the conversation for what you're building, your stack, and videos already analyzed, and tailor verdicts to your actual leverage instead of giving generic advice.

See a real /yt-breakdown run on three "how I make $X/month" videos — including what survived the skeptic pass and what didn't.

How it works (honestly)

There's no magic here, and that's the point:

  • youtubei.js talks to YouTube's internal InnerTube API — the same one the site uses. No key, no quota.
  • Transcripts are YouTube's own captions, fetched through a fallback chain: the ANDROID-client timedtext track → the InnerTube transcript endpoint (known to 400 intermittently — retried with backoff) → local yt-dlp if you have it. Each response tells you which source served it.
  • All analysis happens in your agent. The server ships data; the skills ship method.

Limitations

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.

Tubescout: common questions

Is Tubescout MCP server safe?
Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (88/100). Read the Tubescout safety report
How do I install Tubescout?
It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
Does Tubescout need an API key?
Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
Is Tubescout maintained?
The last commit was 69 days ago (2026-08-27). The latest release is v0.1.1.
What can I use instead of Tubescout?
Servers from other publishers that do the same job: screenpipe MCP server, Zotero MCP server and Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server).
How does Tubescout compare with other Web search MCP servers?
safety score 88/100 (higher than 80% of 3,470 Web search servers); tools 6 (the typical Web search server has 5); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.

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